Photos: GQ's Chef of the Year: David Kinch

Remember when the country's most talented cooks actually worked in their restaurants, you know, cooking? In a world of Molto food empires and spiky-haired TV hosts, David Kinch is an anomaly: a man who labors intensely, day after day, in a single restaurant and a single garden, quietly inventing a new kind of cooking and dazzling anyone lucky enough to sit at his table